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It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections. — John Quincy Adams

I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics. — John Luther Adams

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. — John Quincy Adams

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. — John Adams

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams

What's in these tacos?" a customer asked Del. "Nobody you know, mister," Del said. — John Joseph Adams

I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life — John Adams

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation. — John Adams

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them. — John Adams

The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore. — Paul C. Nagel

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. — John Adams

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone. — John Quincy Adams

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic. — John Quincy Adams

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet. — John Quincy Adams

The city has millions of stories that I don't know. Never did and never will. — John Joseph Adams

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. — John Adams

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. — John Quincy Adams

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present. — John Adams

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams} — Abigail Adams

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. — John Quincy Adams

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible. — John Quincy Adams

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind. — John Adams

The historian must have no country. - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS — James W. Loewen

The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best. — John Adams

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. — John Adams